At 03:57 PM 11/14/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>"Hans Hagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 10:32 AM 11/14/2001 +0100, Christopher Creutzig wrote:
>
> > >findfont
>
><fontname> findfont <font>
>
> > >scalefont
>
><font> <scalefactor> scalefont <font>
>
> > >setfont
>
><font> setfont -
>
>A typical example of these three is:
>
>/Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont
The advantage of fshow over this is that the filename is known. Support for
setfont etc is no problem if there is a way to find out teh fontname. Since
supp-pdf supports specials, such names can be defined with
%%MetaPostSpecial: 5 Helvetica phv n m (with n and m special identifiers)
> > >setlinewidth
>
><number> setlinewidth -
>
> > >arc (only used for full circles)
>
><xcenterpos> <ycenterpos> <radius> <startangle> <stopangle> arc -
>
>An example would be:
>
>1 2 10 0 90 arc
>
>this draws a 45 degree arc of the circle with center at 1,2 and radius 10.
>It starts at point 11,2 and moves 45 degrees CCW, stopping in 1,12. If it
>is not in the PDF spec, then it might be problematic. Goniometric
>calculations in TeX are slow.
In that case .... curve's -)
Hans
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